"HEARTLESS" BY ABDULRAZAK MUHAMMED

Don't use that sight to understand me

I am not wicked 

just a little bit heartless

I had the choice to be 

But no, I can't say the world 

made me heartless.

It only gave me options

Whether to be good,

a shameful saint, wicked,

heartless, or be a silent saint

with a little touch of depression.

I had the options well written 

Words on words

I had the whole time 

My thought couldn't emanate

and can't gat hold of a perfect life

Shameful saint had it's named

Silent saint to others fault 

Guilty in his plan

But heartlessness to the core

will call the world to notice 

Attract more to choose

and have the brightest light on me.

ABDULRAZAK MUHAMMED

- Nigeria 

The poet persona says wickedness is not his wish; yet, the world has somewhat made it so. The bard says he would be nice to whoever is nice to him. The voice does not see heartlesses as an imitable choice but the world is so.